Parting Out, Part Four: How to Sell Car Parts on eBay

After buying a 1992 SC400 to get its suspension for restoring a different car, Murilee Martin set out to make his money back by parting out the 20-year-old luxury car. In this final installment, he sells parts on eBay to see whether it's possible to come out ahead.

Parting Out Part 4: How to Sell Car Parts on eBay

Parting Out Part 4: How to Sell Car Parts on eBay

In Part 1, we bought a $1000 1992 Lexus SC400 as a project-car suspension donor. In Part 2, we disassembled the car and extracted all the parts that might be worth selling. Part 3 saw the beginning of the Great SC400 Sell-Off, with scrap-metal and Craigslist sales. The largest single source of money from the SC400 part-out project, though, came from sales on eBay Motors. Here's how that part of the process went.

I dragged home three carloads of SC400 parts during the dismemberment process, totaling well over 100 parts that I thought I might be able to sell on the world's biggest online auction site. I did some triage and got down to perhaps 80 parts that I felt willing to list on eBay.